At Aquent, we pair marketing and design specialists with challenging jobs to create inspired, productive partnerships. Partnerships that produce meaningful work for our client companies and the talent we represent.

That said, we’re more than a talent placement company. We’re a world-leading innovator in improving the way companies, and talent, work. From pioneering benefits for project-focused designers and marketers, to creating solutions to help companies test-drive talent before hiring them, to building a worldwide network of subject matter specialists who understand the special needs of marketing niches globally and the world’s increased need for specialized talent. Both permanently placed talent and project-based talent.

So what’s the next big thing in marketing and design?

It’s a growing workforce we call independent professionals—the most skilled, specialized, highly motivated marketers and designers in the world. Marketers and designers trading full-time jobs for greater challenges anywhere they can direct their passions. Marketers and designers developing working relationships with select companies around the globe. They are workers who know that real security these days means staying at the top of their game, not working their way to the top of a company. They energize. They inspire. They transform marketing.

Join us as we constantly search for new ways to help companies and workers learn from each other. Where inspired marketing and design flourishes. Where the world works smarter. Where everyone works and lives a little happier.

Contact one of our agents today. And work inspired.

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Ann Webster

President, North America

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Ann Webster began her career with Aquent by helping to establish a MacTemps office in Seattle back in 1990. “At that time, new markets were kept on a pretty short leash,” she explains, “We couldn’t even buy a water cooler for the office until we had 25 people out working!”

Ann’s passion and commitment to growing the business quickly became apparent. She successfully lobbied for a Windows machine (we were MAC-Temps, after all), so that she could begin placing talent at Microsoft (which she did) and the rapidly growing demand for Windows savvy talent. Recognizing the need for multimedia talent in the Seattle area, she set about recruiting and placing them, eventually launching a sub-brand, Montage, which specialized in CD-ROM and multimedia experts. Soon she was adding other brands to the market – Portfolio, Webstaff, 1-800-NETWORK – and expanding her business into Oregon by opening an office in Portland. By 1997, revenue for Ann’s markets were growing at a rate of 20% a year.

Making the most of Ann’s effective leadership skills and keen business sense, she was soon asked to manage Aquent’s entire Western Region, which included all the major cities from Seattle to San Diego. Within three years she had nearly doubled the region’s revenue from and tripled its operating profit.

After additionally assuming responsibility for Aquent’s Canadian offices and overseeing two multi-million dollar acquisitions, Ann was appointed president of Aquent’s North America business in 2006. Ann has flourished in her role as president, growing the profitability of this business by 25%, and continually inspiring people with her strong work ethic, pragmatism, and thoughtful humanity.

Ann has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Northern Arizona University. She currently lives in Boston, MA.

Ann can be reached at annwebster@aquent.com

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Greg Savage

International CEO

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With a career spanning thirty years, Greg is an icon in the Australian recruitment industry and a regular keynote speaker at staffing and recruitment conferences across the globe.

Often described as an “inspirational leader”, a leading Australian publication once featured an article on Greg declaring that …“love him or hate him, it’s virtually impossible to ignore that he has perhaps done more single-handedly for our industry than anyone else …”

Having joined Aquent in April 2001 as Asia Pacific CEO, Greg was promoted in 2005 to Aquent International CEO, assuming responsibility for all Aquent’s markets outside of North America, which today includes 30 offices across Europe, the United Kingdom, India, Asia, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Back in the eighties Greg managed the London office of the United Kingdom’s largest accounting recruiter for two years before returning to Australia and being invited to join the board of directors at age 27.

Along with two colleagues, Greg founded Recruitment Solutions in 1987 and built the company to the point where in July 1998 the business was successfully listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

In recognition for his contribution to the Australian recruitment industry, in 2004 Greg was made an Honorary Life Member of the RCSA – the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association.

You can contact Greg at: gregs@aquent.com

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John Chuang

Co-Founder and CEO

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“In 1986, when I was a junior at Harvard College, two classmates and I started a desktop publishing business in our dorm room,” says John Chuang, Aquent’s CEO and co-founder.

“In the early days, our company was not idea-driven but friend-driven,” Chuang explains, “That is, it existed as a vehicle for friends to spend time together. At that stage it was fine (and in fact fun) to try a series of random ideas. Our company, by design, was flexible enough to keep changing until something worked.”

When that desktop publishing company, Laser Designs, morphed into MacTemps, a temp agency focused on placing desktop publishers who knew how to use a Mac, the friends had indeed found something that worked. In fact, that company, which changed its name to Aquent in 1999, grew into a $500 million global staffing firm.

John has been listed in the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" and Transpacific magazine's "Top 10 Under 40" and "100 Great Asian-American Entrepreneurs." In 2002, Over the course of his career he has also been recognized as New England’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst and Young, a “High Tech All Star,” by Mass High Tech, and was a finalist for the Harvard Business School Club of New York’s “America’s Entrepreneur Award, 2000.”

John has written op-ed pieces for Inc., the Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, the Boston Business Journal, and Staffing Industry Report. He has served as president of the Massachusetts Association of Staffing Services and as a board member for the American Staffing Association, AIGA, and the Recycling Advisory Committee for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He currently sits on the board for Angie's List, a consumer advocacy network, and for CareerSoft.

John earned a bachelor's degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1987 and an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School in 1992, while serving as the company’s chief executive officer.

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Larry Bolick

CIO

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With his mild manner, wry sense of humor, and years of experience, Larry Bolick provides the steady leadership and vision required to meet the ever-evolving technical needs of our growing, global organization. From Aquent.com, to MyAquent, our powerful extranet for Talent and Clients, to The Wall, our proprietary, interactive database, Larry and his team are always creating new ways to keep information flowing, communication open, and systems working.

Over the past twenty-five years, Larry has been an active member of the IT and professional services community. His experience includes serving as a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Senior Manager at Coopers & Lybrand, and VP-Network Consulting Services and CIO at Cambridge Technology Partners.

Larry earned his master's degree in applied mathematics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He also has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Larry currently resides in Natick, MA.

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Mia Wenjen

Co-Founder Director

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"In the early days, we would hire a kid just graduating from college, hand them a key and say, ‘You’re opening the Orange County office,’" says Mia Wenjen. She’s describing the free-wheeling approach to expansion that she and Aquent’s co-founders, John Chuang and Steve Kapner took as their budding business spread across the US and then the world.

For her part, Mia launched the West Coast operations and grew the Los Angeles market into one of the company’s largest. Possessed of the same entrepreneurial spirit that has driven Aquent from the outset, Mia went on to oversee the Boston market, manage an internal start-up aimed at the temporary placement of accountants, and serve as publisher of 1099 Magazine, the off-line version of Aquent’s cheeky webzine for independent professionals, 1099.com.

Mia graduated from Harvard College cum laude in history and science in 1987 and earned an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management in 1993.

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Mike Smith

CMO

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If there was a “first temp”, there had to have been a “first Agent”. Indeed, the first person at Aquent (then MacTemps), to place anyone on assignment was Mike Smith, also known as, “Employee #5”.

Mike’s had a number of “firsts” at Aquent including opening the first branch outside of Boston (in New York in 1988) and serving as the first VP of International Operations, in which role he oversaw the opening of Aquent’s first offices in Japan, Australia, and continental Europe.

Whether as President of North America Staffing, VP of HR, or Chief Operating Officer, Mike has continually applied his wit and intelligence to making Aquent better for clients, talent, and staff. You can read his thoughts about Aquent, past, present, and future on his blog.

Mike graduated in 1987 from Harvard College where he studied medieval and ancient history.

You can contact Mike at mikesmith@aquent.com

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Nunzio Domilici

CFO

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Nunzio Domilici, the fourth employee hired by the three founders, was actually the first “temp” placed on assignment by the fledgling staffing firm back in 1987.

From the outset, Nunzio has played a key role in developing Aquent’s operations. He served as VP of Finance while Aquent’s revenues grew to $40 million. As VP of IT, Nunzio oversaw the development of Aquent’s proprietary, real-time interactive database, a version of which still manages invoicing and payroll for thousands of Aquent Talent.

Prior to becoming Aquent’s CFO in 2000, Nunzio spearheaded Aquent’s expansion into the world of high-end graphic design at the helm of Aquent’s “Portfolio” business unit and then as president of strategy and evangelism, responsible for overall business strategy and alliances with key professional organizations including the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA).

Nunzio graduated from Harvard College in 1987 with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. He lives in Wellesley, MA.

You can contact Nunzio at nunziodomilici@aquent.com.

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Steve Kapner

Co-Founder and Managing Director

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When Steve Kapner showed up at college, little did he expect that random freshman rooming assignments would be the beginning of a decades-long business partnership. As it turned out, his roommate was John Chuang and downstairs lived Mia Wenjen. Together the three of them launched a desktop publishing business from their dorm room that eventually grew into the $500 million global enterprise known today as Aquent.

Steve’s roles at Aquent have run the gamut since those early days when everyone basically had to do everything. Over the years he has served as CFO, head of training and development, general manager of an internal technology start-up, and president of both Creative and IT staffing operations. Today, Steve is based out of Aquent’s Tokyo office where he’s busy on a number of global projects.

Outside of Aquent Steve has managed venture capital investments for Harvard and worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He is chairman of the Aspire Group, Aquent’s staffing business for security-cleared personnel, and serves as a board member for Angie's List, a consumer advocacy network.

Steve earned an AB cum laude from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Three little-known facts about him: He has co-hosted a weekly radio talk show, trained on an amphibious assault ship with the US Navy, and once had Tom Peters ask him for advice.

You can contact Steve at stevekapner@aquent.com.